Definition of subordinate

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Subordinate (a.) Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position..

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Hierarchy :: Hierarchy (n.) A body of officials disposed organically in ranks and orders each subordinate to the one above it; a body of ecclesiastical rulers.
Servant :: Servant (n.) One who serves, or does services, voluntarily or on compulsion; a person who is employed by another for menial offices, or for other labor, and is subject to his command; a person who labors or exerts himself for the benefit of another, his master or employer; a subordinate helper..
Arriere :: Arriere (n.) That which is behind; the rear; -- chiefly used as an adjective in the sense of behind, rear, subordinate..
Subordinate :: Subordinate (a.) Inferior in order, nature, dignity, power, importance, or the like..
Suborned :: Subordinative (a.) Tending to subordinate; expressing subordination; used to introduce a subordinate sentence; as, a subordinative conjunction..
Accessory :: Accessory (a.) Accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing or contributory; said of persons and things, and, when of persons, usually in a bad sense; as, he was accessory to the riot; accessory sounds in music..
Soffit :: Soffit (n.) The under side of the subordinate parts and members of buildings, such as staircases, entablatures, archways, cornices, or the like. See Illust. of Lintel..
Bowline :: Bowline (n.) A rope fastened near the middle of the leech or perpendicular edge of the square sails, by subordinate ropes, called bridles, and used to keep the weather edge of the sail tight forward, when the ship is closehauled..
Incendental :: Incendental (n.) An incident; that which is incidental; esp., in the plural, an aggregate of subordinate or incidental items not particularized; as, the expense of tuition and incidentals..
Ramification :: Ramification (n.) A division into principal and subordinate classes, heads, or departments; also, one of the subordinate parts; as, the ramifications of a subject or scheme..
Second :: Second (a.) Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior..
Official :: Official (a.) One who holds an office; esp., a subordinate executive officer or attendant..
Underbuilder :: Underbuilder (n.) A subordinate or assistant builder.
Bywork :: Bywork (n.) Work aside from regular work; subordinate or secondary business.
Insurgent :: Insurgent (a.) Rising in opposition to civil or political authority, or against an established government; insubordinate; rebellious..
Chapel :: Chapel (n.) A subordinate place of worshi.
Appendage :: Appendage (n.) A subordinate or subsidiary part or organ; an external organ or limb, esp. of the articulates..
Subalternate :: Subalternate (a.) Subordinate; subaltern; inferior.
Underlaborer :: Underlaborer (n.) An assistant or subordinate laborer.
Subdelegate :: Subdelegate (n.) A subordinate delegate, or one with inferior powers..
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